[dep]

Are there any outstanding amendments on the floor or is there a motion for clothure of debate?

*Smacks head for not remembering Robert's Rules*

waidaminnit here. the governing authority ("controlling legal authority") here is tom's rules of order, in which the vote necessary to bring about the action is one more than those seeking it can muster. that's how the big guys -- figuratively, of course, daschle being an embittered midget -- do it.

dep

[jriemer]

Are there any outstanding amendments on the floor or is there a motion for clothure of debate?

*Smacks head for not remembering Robert's Rules*

waidaminnit here. the governing authority ("controlling legal authority") here is tom's rules of order, in which the vote necessary to bring about the action is one more than those seeking it can muster. that's how the big guys -- figuratively, of course, daschle being an embittered midget -- do it.

dep

Well if we were employing Tom's rules of order, we could do darn near anything we wanted as long as we were named Tom and a midget.